I've actually experimented with drilling holes in Luxeons to do this.
It works but you have to be very careful not to tear the plastic bezel
right off the die.

Cheers,
Zik

On 9/4/07, Tony Smith <ajsmith@rivernet.com.au> wrote:
> > IIRC some time ago (years?) someone (Jinx?) was experimenting
> > with shining  light in Plexiglas by attaching a led on the
> > edge of the sheet.
> > I have been looking for this thread with no avail. I would
> > greatly appreciate if anyone that remember that discussion
> > could give me a pointer to it.
> > Gaston Gagnon
>
>
> Agilent have a good PDF on that sort of thing, Google 'Agilent LED light
> pipe' or similar.
>
> Quite a few good tips.  Like embed the LED (drill a hole) in the plastic, or
> epoxy it to reduce losses caused light bouncing off the edge of the plastic.
> It also talks about drilling holes in the LED so you can put a fibre optic
> cable right over the die, but that's probably a bit excessive.
>
> Tony
>
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